Although sixty years passed by since the opening of Kuybyshev Reservoir, Anvar Abiy still sees his home village gone under water in dreams. Meanwhile in another part of the country a community centre is going to be exploded. The Community centre former director Galina Zhmurova remains in the village to the last, not willing to leave her Motherland, which is about to be buried in the waters of Boguchask Reservoir.

In the Southern Andes,a thousand year old tree, the Araucaria Araucana survives for 200 million years. It’s story is little known and forever linked to an Amerindian people of Chile: the Pehuenches. This isolated community has survived for centuries thanks to the Araucaria. But the perfect harmony between man and nature will soon be disturbed by invasion of the Spanish settlers, territorial conflicts, logging and the fires.

This film presents the culture and everyday life of argentinean arrieros, mule herders that transport equipment and provisions during the climbing season at Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas.

At the same time that it explores the region's unique geography, the documentary also observes the gradual disappearance of a culture and of a traditional form of work.

In Sarawak, one of the two Malay states on the island of Borneo, “the ones who live upstream” are the first affected by the deforestation. The Penan, once a nomadic people, are caught today in the eye of the storm : how to go on living when one’s entire world is being taken apart, when the landscape, which brought meaning to existence, literally disappears and with it language, customs and the spirits?

The film portrays a part of the work of David Monacchi, a sound artist, a researcher and an eco-acoustic composer who has been developing the multidisciplinary project “Fragments of Extinction” for nearly 15 years. Through David’s eyes and ears we get immersed in the unique soundscapes of the area with the highest world’s biodiversity, the primary forests of Yasunì, Ecuador. Climate change, the petrol workers, extreme drought, advanced technologies in the wild, primitive circumstances are just some of the challenges David has to face in order to achieve his goal: to record a pure and continous 24-hour 3D soundscape in order preserve this soundscape for future generations to come.

YEKUANA and SANEMA peoples are an indigenous culture in the verge of decimation. Mercury is poisoning and killing these ancestral cultures. Solving YEKUANA and SANEMA's problem is on the hands of the ones who have the duty to stop it, but instead; are profiting from it.

A Finnish director finds her own national identity in the desert between Colombia and Venezuela. There she encounters the indigenous Wayuu who don’t feel like they are citizens of any country. The Wayuu believe in dreams and in their ability to shape what is real. In the desert the director’s dreams become a reality, her crazy idea suddenly possible.

The desert is a place for reflection about identity, borders and borderlessness. It is a place where a different way of perceiving the world manifests itself as a way of life.

In 1927 the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. The film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage, leading to such questions as: What were the actual economic reasons for Ford to venture hundreds of miles through the Amazon jungle for a home for his project? Why did he want to transplant a slice of twentieth century civilization into the middle of the Amazon forest? Was rubber cultivation his only goal? What are the ecological implications of this venture now ninety years later? How did Ford’s attempt to convert the lush, naturally abundant Brazilian landscape into industrial scale agriculture, foreshadow today’s destruction of the rainforest? What will be the impact of soybean monoculture for the future of the Amazon Rainforest? What are the lessons to be learned from today’s ecological experimentation and in particular from the Fordlândia experience?

The Kalaallit people of Greenland have been inseparably connected to the eternal ice for millennia. In just a few short years, colonialism dramatically transitioned their culture to a modern life style. Today, as the foundation of their traditions is literally melting beneath their feet, two photographers seek to imprint on their images a message from a vanishing world.

What roads did the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games pave for Brazil? Navigating through the daily lives of three Brazilians, this documentary explores how the two major sports events of the planet have affected the lives of the citizens of Rio de Janeiro.